In the second part of their discussion, Luke Barnes and David Sloan go over the difference between frequentist and bayesian statistics, and how this difference applies to astrophysics and cosmology.
New Approaches to Probability
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This discussion was conducted at Trinity College, Oxford, on May 13, 2016.
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